Welcome to the Spookiest Blog on the Block! Each month we have a different theme. You choose your chart, fabric and threads. Share your progress as you go along and post your finished piece by the last day of the month. You can join at anytime throughout the year and choose which months you wish to stitch with us. Happy Spooky Stitching.

Sunday, 21 September 2014

There were so many different Black Cats to choose from this month it really was difficult to pick just one.

I searched through all my downloaded charts and my JCS issues, paper and digital and finally decided on this companion piece to Boo who is our logo this year.

The design is by Val's Stuff and comes from JCS Sept/Oct 2009. I don't know too much about Val but she does cute designs.

I stitched this on the same 32count evenweave as Boo and changed the border colours to co-ordinate with Boo too. I found the perfect button for the star but couldn't find a blue moon so I made a beaded moon instead.

Now I just have to decide how to finish these two. Here they are together:

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Happy September everyone! I'm a little late for August--had the ornament stitched and finished but didn't get around to taking a picture of it in the right light. This little cutie is from the new JSC Halloween issue. I stitched them over 1 on 25 count black Jobelan with DMC glow in the dark floss. Finished them into a ghost shape. Enjoy!

L is for Lightning Bird from A Dark Alphabet designed by Julie and Becky's Note of Friendship blog.

A mythological creature in South Africa the Lightning Bird is
the size of a human, black and white in colouring and it summons thunder and
lightning with its wings and talons. It is associated with witchcraft and
has quite an appetite for blood. Sometimes
it takes on the image of a young man to seduce women.

Another name for this bird is the hamerkop. This bird
is known to decorate
its nest with anything from handkerchiefs to bicycle tires! In the Zulu culture someone who spends much time in front of
a mirror is called thekwane, their name for the hamerkop, because they are like
the bird that is found to spend hours beside the water's edge looking at their
reflection.

I couldn't find any other cross stitch designs of a lightning bird but I did find these sweet little buttons which are available in a book:

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Even though I'm late getting this posted here, I did get my ghosts finished before September. The reason it took so long to get them done is because I had to stitch the house for them to haunt first. And that took a bit of time.

Plus over the long weekend I assembled a few of my Halloween stitchings into ornaments so they will be ready for this year.